[theme-reviewers] Author website advertises themeforest

[Chip Bennett]

...which is fine for this specific case, but I'm more interested in what
precedent we set for other reviews.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:

> The submitter has thrown up a new page at that URL with nothing but their
> wp.org profile: http://thememotive.com/
>
> On 13 February 2013 11:53, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> I could get overruled if I'm misinterpreting here, but it is, IMHO, a
>> bridge too far to ask Theme Reviewers to evaluate all advertising on links
>> used as Theme URI/Author URI. So, it depends on the specific advertisement
>> in question.
>>
>> There's a difference between selling or promoting non-GPL Themes, and a
>> generic advertising banner. Linking to one's own Themes for sale, or an
>> affiliate link to non-GPL Themes? Sure. That's reasonable to ask the
>> developer to remove.
>>
>> But a generic banner ad?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Chandra Maharzan <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I guess you have to note to remove that to the author.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Srini <srinig112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's a ticket I'm reviewing:
>>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11123
>>>>
>>>> The author URI has a themeforest banner ad. As far as I know this is a
>>>> violation of theme requirements as themeforest distributes themes that are
>>>> not fully GPL licensed, and I'm not sure how to proceed. Clarification on
>>>> this appreciated.
>>>>
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